After a week of broadsides marked the fifth anniversary of his controversial Massachusetts health care law, Mitt Romney is getting some support from his home-state paper. In an editorial Monday, The Boston Globe writes that conservatives should give Romney credit for for "warding off various schemes feared by business."

"After an Urban Institute study recommended an individual mandate, Romney made that the core of his plan,” the paper says. “That was a way of sidestepping the approach many Democrats favored: a payroll tax of 5 to 7 percent on businesses that did not offer health coverage.”

The editorial lauds Romney for playing the role of "a governor sensitive to business concerns and worried about the state's business climate," noting the outrage by many conservatives over the individual mandate: "Conservatives have come to view that individual mandate as an intolerable imposition on personal liberty, rather than an insistence on personal responsibility. ... If they weren’t hyperventilating about the national law, they might come to recognize that the role Romney played on the state level was skillful, creative, and business-friendly."